Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) students are staying away from classes, demanding justice in an incident that took place on October 27. Five BUET students were injured allegedly by students of the Zahurul Hoque Hall of Dhaka University (DU). The BUET students are demanding campus security even as the educational atmosphere of both BUET and DU get vitiated, with their students blaming each other for the fracas.

On Friday evening, students of DU’s Zahurul Hall and followers of Asif Talukder, general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League Zahurul Hall unit, allegedly attacked the BUET students with sticks and iron rods. The students alleged that one of their fellow students, Al Imran, of the second-year management department had been locked up by BUET students and that they had gone to rescue him. The confrontation led to a clash between the two groups of students.

However, sources claimed that drug trafficking was the real reason behind the clash. Efforts to dominate the drug business in the BUET–Shahid Minar area resulted in a clash between drug dealers and BUET general students on October 26. Three BUET students were injured in the clash with drug dealers.

 Around 10 to 15 BUET students, including those of the Suhrawardy Hall, led by Md Raju, son of a BUET employee, were allegedly taking drugs in the Shahid Minar area on October 26 evening, when some criminals attacked them. Three of the students were injured. Around 10.30pm, the drug dealers apparently attacked them again and  snatched the mobile phone and bicycle of a BUET student named Ovhi in front of Suhrawardy Hall. The BUET authority filed a case in Chawkbazar police station against Md Raju and 10–12 of his unknown followers.